In pain -- need some healing vibes & pixie dust

[Marseeya]

I don't know if it's my fibromyalgia acting up or what, but for the past several days I've been in some pretty bad pain. My wrists and hands hurt like a toothache, and almost everything in my upper body hurts as well. I've been eating Motrin like candy, but it's not doing much good.

After being mostly pain free for the past two years, this is really hard to take.

 

[Virgo10]

Hope you're feeling better soon. I see you live up north and I have to tell you that moving south to Florida has changed my life tremendously as far as pain is concerned. I have rheumatoid arthritis and a host of other problems that seem to be exacerbated by bad weather. Last winter, my first in Florida, was the best I've had in 20 years!

Maybe your doctor can give you something stronger than Motrin.

Good luck.

 

[kaylajr]

 

[Marseeya]

Hope you're feeling better soon. I see you live up north and I have to tell you that moving south to Florida has changed my life tremendously as far as pain is concerned. I have rheumatoid arthritis and a host of other problems that seem to be exacerbated by bad weather. Last winter, my first in Florida, was the best I've had in 20 years!

Maybe your doctor can give you something stronger than Motrin.

Good luck.

Do you think the warm humidity actually helps you? I just find that no matter how miserable hot I am in the summer, I don't have pain. I think I've just been lucky not to have had it the past couple of years.

 

[HayGan]

 

[Dan Murphy]

Good wishes. Sure do hope the aches and pains alleviate soon. A real bummer there. My best.

 

[debbiedoo]

 

[MsDisney23]

I hope you feel better soon! Maybe try a nice hot soak in the tub and good rub down with something like BenGay! Nothing worse than having pain. All my best.

 

[Kitty 34]

Hope your pain goes away soon.

 

[Virgo10]

Do you think the warm humidity actually helps you? I just find that no matter how miserable hot I am in the summer, I don't have pain. I think I've just been lucky not to have had it the past couple of years.

Yes. I noticed the same thing when we were still in MA. It didn't matter how humid it was in the summer as long as it was hot. Another thing that was the norm in the summer in New England, a lack of storms that would drop the pressure like a rock. Winter, of course, was another story. We'd get rid of one storm and within a few days another one would be on the way and the barometric pressure would begin its roller coaster ride all over again.

I don't think the humidity has as much to do with feeling better down here as the warmer temps do. Winter in central Florida is pretty much humidity free.

BTW, I know I didn't have some sort of weird spontaneous recovery when we moved here. Last Tuesday we had a regular New England type rain storm. I was in agony from Monday night right through the entire day on Tuesday. Once the storm moved out on Tuesday night, my pain level dropped to nearly zero.

 

[Kermit]

I hope you feel better soon. I have a related disease, and my wrists have just started hurting the past few days. I was blaming it on the fact that my baby is 14 months old and maybe I'm no longer in remission because I'm not nursing as often, but it's very possible that the weather has something to do with it, too. I'd completely forgotten that the winters were always worse than the summers.

 

[heart4pooh]

Tight muscles and trigger points in your upper back and arms can cause pain in your wrists and hands. Have you tried to get a 1/2 hr therapeutic back massage? It may help. Hope you feel better soon.

 

[allie&mattsmom]

I'm sorry. That sounds awful! I hope you feel better soon. Is there anything the doctor can prescribe that may work better than Motrin?

 

[Marseeya]

Thanks for the thoughts.

My doc won't really prescribe anything stronger than Motrin -- he'll prescribe up to 800 mg of it, but I have to be careful taking too much of it because I have Barrett's esophagus (a sort of pre-cancerous condition that I control with Nexium or Prilosec). His big thing is to "prescribe" fun. He's told me in the past to take a walk, exercise or have whoopie fun, if you know what I mean -- anything to raise the serotonin levels. But that's so easy for him to say when he's not in tears from the pain!

As for the massage, oh yeah, that sounds wonderful! I tried getting DH to do it this morning, but he just won't do it hard enough because he's always been afraid of hurting me. I want one of those Shiatsu chairs they have in the malls.

 

[Serena]

I"m sorry you're hurting.